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Articles on Handke's Works

Since the publication of his first novel and his dramatic entry
onto the literary stage in 1966, the Austrian-born writer Peter
Handke has been one of the most prolific, respected and
controversial figures in German language literature in the later
half of the twentieth century. A novelist, playwright, poet,
essayist and filmmaker, Handke has enjoyed critical success in a
variety of genres and has remained on the vanguard of European
literature since his first publications. Once a perennial candidate
for the Nobel Prize, his more recent political writings,
particularly a series of essays in the late 1990s on the former
Yugoslavia, have turned many critics against him and have again
placed him at the center of controversy. Nevertheless, …

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